Display device



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WILL

L. HOPKINS, OF ROSLYN, NEW- YORK, ASSIGNOR '10 AMERICAN LITHO- GRAPHICCOMPANY, OF NEW YORKJN. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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To all whom it myconcem:

Be it known that I, WILLIA L, HOPKINS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Roslyn inthe county of Nassau and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification. "I

This invention relates to display ,devices such as are adapted .for usevin connection .with containers, particularly bottles, and has as anobject to provide a unitary device having means integral therewith forattachment and support directly upon the container.

Another object is to provide such devices in forms adapted for use asadvertising mediums, to bear data relative to the contents of thecontainers and other analogous"objects to which they are attached;further object is to provide display devices in designs inexpensive toconstruct and which are readily erected on a bottle or removed at will.

To these purposes my improvements comprise features hereinafterdescribed. in their preferred embodiment and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, in which F'gure 1 is a perspective front view of a3!) conventional type of bottle, showing the application of thepreferred embodiment of my invention. a Fig. 2 is a plan viewshowing theflat blank prior to bending. Fig. 3 is a similar but fragmentary viewshowing a modification in comtruction.- .All of the figuresare to onescale. r

The shape of the display device is imma; terial, so far as the outpreferred pro file its side edges 11 terminatmg at points uadistant fromthe upper edge 12 and being joined by converging curves 13 blending intoa connectingcurve 1% preferably ovoidal or semi-elliptic in 5: shape,these curved edges outlining a tabopening 22, maintaining the device inopopen at the bottom, as shown.

me of itsupper portion or body is concerned, and also the ma- 49.terial, except that it be flat, flexible and ApPlicationtled-March 7,1922. sem No. 541,798.

like element 15. in some cases there is provided bending crease 16,extending vacross tab 15, approximatel. at the junction of curves 13 and14 an parallel with upper edge 12. An opening 17, preferably oval inform, is provided through tab 15, 1ts major diameter beingon thevertical median line of the blank and its upper edge adjacentcrease16. Asubstantially U shaped incision 19, having out-turned ends 20, is madein body '10 on said median line, forming lip 21, above oval opening 17,said lip whenv pressed outwardly presenting an opening '22. When erectedon a bottle or the like,

oval opening 17 is passed over bottle neck-7,- becoming seated on thelower portion-thereof and the blank vert'ically flexed throughout itswidth so that stoppered mouth 8 and the, upper part of neck 7 extendthrough erative position.

Lip 21 is adapted to press against said neck materially augmenting thegripping fuction of the openings but rmitting the device to be rotatedon neck 7 and applied or removed with case. In the modificationindicated in Fig. 3, the same general characteristics are maintained,exce t that in place of a continuous curved e ge .at' the bottom of tab15, the material is cut away presenting opposed prongs 23 at the sides 1of oval opening 17 which is now artially his arrangement, while holdingthe display device with equal security to the bottle, ad-' mits of moreconvenient assembling, particularly if the bottle necks are irregular orvar .in 'slze.

' rom the foregoing it will be seen that a neat appearing and effectivedisplay device hasbeen devised, capable of extensive use and which, duea to, its simplicity, can be made at a moderate cost.

1 1. In 'a displa device of sheet material adapted for erection ona/bottle or the like, the combination of a body having a U shaped cuttherethrough whereby an opening and a lip are provided, said openingbeing adapted for receiv'in the neck of the bottle therethrough an saidlip. adapted for pressing against said neck, and a second openlngbelowsaid U shaped opening adapted for engagin the lower .portion of thebottle neck, said splay being adapted to be flexed when 110 erected onthe bottle, whereby said openings are brought into engaging relationwith the bottle.

2. In a display dev ice of sheet material adapted for erection on abottle or the like, the combination of a body having a U shaped cuttherethrough whereby an opening and a lip are provided, said openingbeing adapted for receivin the neck of the bottle therethrough an saidlip adapted for pressing against said neck, and a second 0 ning of ovalcontour below said U shape ada ted for engaging the lower portionof theottle neck, said display being'adapted to be flexed when erected on thebottlewhereby, Said openings are brought into engaging relation with thebottle.

3. In a display device of sheet material adapted for erection on abottle or the like, the combination of a body having a U shaped cuttherethrough whereby an opening and a lip are provided, said openingbeing adapted for receivin the neck of the bottle therethrough an saidlip adapted for pressing against said neck, a second 0 ening below saidU shaped opening adapte for opening engaging the lower portion of thebottle neck, and a transverse folding line between said openings, saiddisplay being adapted for bending along said folding line when erectedon the bottle, whereby said openings are brought into engaging relationwith the bottle.

4. In a display device of sheet material adapted for erection on abottle or the like, the combination of a body having a U shaped cuttherethrough whereby an opening and a lip are provided, said openingbeing adapted for receiving the neck of the bottle therethrough and saidlip adapted for pressing against said neck, a second opening of ovalcontour below said U shaped opening adapted for engaging the lowerportion of the bottle neck, and a transverse folding line between saidopenings, said display being adapted for bending along said folding linewhen erected on the bottle, whereby said opening and holding means arebrought into engaging relation with the bottle.

In witness whereof, I hereby aflix my signature this 4th day of March,1922.

WILLIAM L HOPKINS.

